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Simple Scrabbly Trees

I’ve blended three classes Bianca offered. One was the first part of "Simple Trees," and the other was the class on creating a wet-on-wet and a dry-on-dry transition background. Finally, I went back and dabbed in some flowers after watching Bianca add a hint of grass in the negative painting (trees) lesson. 

Cover image is set on a wet-on-wet background with traditional palette colors like ultramarine blue and a common green I painted the background wet on wet, let it dry then painted scrabbly trees with trunks and grounding.

 

Simple Scrabbly Trees - image 1 - student project

The above shows yet another attempt to use the Lukas prescribed limited palette primary colors — cyan, magenta and lemon yellow. Again, painted wet-on-wet background, let it dry and then added the scrabbly trees. Had a hard time mixing a good black even though 3 primary colors are supposed to make black.

I don’t think the flowers are glorious, but it was fun to use the technique I saw Bianca use to add a hint of grassy texture.